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Curious to see if anyone is building out their courses with rapid eLearning concepts/tools. Using Canvas to offer shorter/abbreviated online courses that engage users. Would love to see a discussion on this topic...

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Recently I have been reviewing Kirkpatrick's four levels of training evaluation ( reaction, learning, behavior, and results ) because we have an online teacher training at Ventura College that prepares faculty to teach online in Canvas by helping the...

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I wish to create a journal that individual students keep throughout the course, but which can be seen and ideally commented on by the teacher at intervals. At the moment an assignment seems the best option but can teachers view an assignment before i...

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Does anyone know other reasons a Peer Review would not auto assign when the teacher has set it to do that? Even when the teacher clicks the "Assign Peer Reviews" after students have submitted their assignments, the Peer Reviews DO NOT get assigned. N...

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I'm trying to embed videos from my files and adjust the size of video player on Canvas pages. I have tried to tweak the html code but couldn't find a way to adjust the player size. Can someone help me?

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Our teachers enter assignments/grades into Canvas. Then they sync to PowerSchool's gradebook, PowerTeacherPro (PTP). PowerSchool is our SIS. Comments do not transfer from Canvas to PTP with the sync, so teachers are going into PTP and adding comments...

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I taught Intro to Theatre Summer 2018. I am teaching the exact same course this summer. How can I simply copy the content so that I do not have to completely reload everything? All I need to do is to change the dates. Thank you.Janice FronczakUNK

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Our college runs many programs on an Open Entry/ Open Exit basis, with students beginning programs at various times. I have some instructors who would like to populate a course section automatically with due dates that apply to the student's start da...

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Why can we add images to an announcement, but the images do not display in the emails? After all, pictures say a thousand words. Most of my announcements in a course are dependent on the accompanying images. And nothing in the email says to click Vie...

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Students have submitted an assignment, and it shows that I can download them. However, whenever I go to the speed grader, only the test student shows up. 

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I would like to have an assignment on Canvas to do at home that is timed.  The students once they open the assignment will have one hour, for example. How do I do this?  Thank you. Lori 

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Under "People" I can see the date of a student's "Last Activity".   Is there a way to see a class list with the last submission date so that I do not have to open an "Analytics" window for each student?

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We've got an SIS integration which works great but every-so-often there's a need to manually create an account for some exception or another. I had what I thought was the brilliant (and humble!) idea to throw my initials and date into the SIS ID fiel...

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Someone please explain this to me.With the settings set as shown in the screenshot below, shouldn't this stop a student from seeing the course until 5/6? Because, it's not. I have a test account enrolled in this course as a student, and I can still g...

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Personalized learning is something our university is so eager to master in Canvas. In fact, we have already started integrating mastery path in our canvas classrooms. As our college's representative, it is my duty to present and train teachers on how...

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Can grading schemes be applied to Assignment Groups? Scenario: The faculty wants to show the students an aggregate roll-up score - presented as a letter grade - not as a percentage or a number for each grouping of activities. Then, present an overall...

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In working on a self-paced Faculty course, I'd like to use Mastery Paths (and maybe eventually badges).  It's quite a learning curve for me and I've found some good information in the Canvas Guides and in the Community.  But I've not found how to bes...

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Hello Canvas users!  We are in the process of moving to a new SIS, CampusNexus Student (by Campus Management) and are looking for fellow users to connect with. We have some specific questions about Grade Passback, but would love to connect more gener...

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HiI am hoping someone could help.We were trying to look for a way to print out all of the pages on a course easily as we had a student who needed print versions of their pages for accessibility reasons. I came across this idea which seemed to be aski...

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I have a teacher who had three essay questions for a section exam.  The quiz was created in Quizzes.Next and each question was to be worth 20 pts.  He accidentally marked the last question as 1 pt. and didn't realize his mistake until some students h...

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Hi! Is there anyone else out there using Soundtrap with Canvas?  We have just recently installed the Soundtrap app, but we are experiencing some issues... 1. When we install the app, the app occurs in each and every course menu... The thing is, we on...

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Can you force a redirect to open in a new tab if it is redirecting to another Canvas course?

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For my courses, I weight each assignment equally. However, every assignment technically has different numbers of possible points.It would save me a lot of time if I didn't have to figure out the percentages for each assignment before putting them int...

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We are currently using a Google G Suite as our SAML provider. Is it possible to add another G Suite SAML provider from another Google domain, while keeping our current SAML instance?Thanks,Andrew Philipoffandrew.philipoff@gbhi.org

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I would like to create a private graded individual journal discussion for each student; where I will be able to comment and grade each journal entry separately.   Would like to have 4 submitted journal entries all in one place for each student.  Is t...

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Hi!A student is having a strange issue; when she tries to upload a file in an assignment, the document becomes empty. This has happened to two different students. I don't understand why this happens or how to resolve the issue. The size of the files ...

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I'd like to create a group for parents but I don't want discussions or files. Anyone know of a way to hide these items?

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Hello there, I am looking for course building ideas on how to build out courses revolving around Robotics. We are introducing this certificate program in the upcoming FA19 term and this is brand new for us and I would like some ideas of what is done ...

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Hello,We are trying to configure SSO between Canvas and Azure. We followed this guide https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-1402-azure-overview and everything works if the user signs into Azure first and then navigates to Canvas site. However, whe...

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Hi,I have copied a previous course, including all announcements, but I would like the students to see them, when I think it is time to post them, not from the beginning of the course. (The students are already enrolled in the course, and its publishe...

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